Johannes Tauler
German theologian
Ana Castillo
novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer
Ana Castillois a Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator and independent scholar. Considered one of the leading voices in Chicana experience, Castillo is most known for her experimental style as a Latina novelist and for her intervention in Chicana feminism known as Xicanisma.
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About the Ana Castillo
Ana Castillois a Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, essayist, editor, playwright, translator and independent scholar. Considered one of the leading voices in Chicana experience, Castillo is most known for her experimental style as a Latina novelist and for her intervention in Chicana feminism known as Xicanisma.
Her works offer pungent and passionate socio-political comment that is based on established oral and literary traditions. Castillo’s interest in race and gender issues can be traced throughout her writing career. Her novel Sapogonia was a 1990 New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and her text So Far from God was a 1993 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She is the editor of La Tolteca, an arts and literary magazine.
Castillo held the first Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Endowed Chair at DePaul University. She has attained a number of awards including a 1987 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for her first novel, The Mixquiahuala Letters, a Carl Sandburg Award, a Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in fiction and poetry and in 1998 Sor Juana Achievement Award by the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum in Chicago.
5 Quotes by Ana Castillo
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For things to have value in man’s world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man’s oldest and most constant commodity is woman.
Ana Castillonovelist, poet, essayist, short story writer
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I’m concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.
Ana Castillonovelist, poet, essayist, short story writer
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There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.
Ana Castillonovelist, poet, essayist, short story writer
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Our goal should be to achieve joy.
Ana Castillonovelist, poet, essayist, short story writer
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Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men’s needs.
Ana Castillonovelist, poet, essayist, short story writer